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...survey recently completed by the Radcliffe Alumnae Office reports, not without a trace of pride, that "unless they are thinking only of marriage or are on vacation," 1947 Annex graduates have already leaped headlong into the world...
Beacon in a Fog. While most other Protestant publications were displaying their intellectual poverty either by clinging stubbornly to dogma or retreating headlong before the advance of secularism, the Christian Century remained stimulating and profound; it eventually became a beacon of level-headedness in a fog of misty thinking...
...much for the compositions he had played (they were slight pieces) but for his past contribution to music. For half an hour the crowd clapped, cheered and shouted, bringing him back again & again to take nervous, bobbing little bows. Once he stumbled over the dais and almost fell headlong on the stage in his haste to retreat. Said one Czech, who saw a lot of him: "He gives you the impression that more than anywhere else in the world he would be happiest on a desert island, completely alone...
...John C. Wilson) and, what's more remarkable, flies backwards. Famed French Avant-Gardist Cocteau's "romantic melodrama" is outdated purple-&-plush palace theatrics, which starts off with a poet-revolutionist plunging through a window into the royal boudoir, and winds up with a dying queen toppling headlong down a vast flight of stairs...
Fortunately, though he can't quite save the day, Cuckoo Clark notably brightens the evening. Hurling himself headlong into any role he can find a costume for -monk, chancellor, Foreign Legionnaire, laundress-Bobby leers at the actresses, spits on the plot, and keeps hurrying nowhere...